Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-01-12
CRUELTY OF THE PeRSlANs.
All Sorts of wickedness Concealed Under
m Thin Veneer of Hospitanty.

AL - - 1890
q Thin Veneer Of Hospitality.
Under a thin veneer Of good nature,
hospitality aud politen ,ss the modern Per-
sian couceals every one of the seven dead
" sins. IL is a significant fact that no
words corresponding to our love, graft
tude, virtue, honor, patriotism, conscience
or penitence exists in his language. The
words serving as substitutes have alto
gether different meanings. ''Takewah"
means piety or rather observance Of the
ritualistic laws; 'hunnern means not
honor but smartness and cunning;
''nemeki haelal' and ''nemeki h!uram'
literally, good salt and lad salt only
refers 10 the rules OF hospitality; ''pcshi-
mani" is not penitence but grief nj the
non success OF an enterprise, and 'ishk'
is not love bat the only feeling the Per
sian knows under that name.
Like most towards the Persian is fond
of inllirling pain where he may do so
safely. Cruelty Gems Unborn with him. ]
have seen little children of both sexes
stoning n poor cur 10 death aud literally
hacking = miserable cat 10 pieces Just for
the luhui !Ue thing, aud without any in
reference tom, often wen with the
active cooperation Of, the parent.
The death penalty is usually executed
with n view OF making the culprlt
undergo The most horrible torturcs and Of
%atforling n welcome sight to the Gallons
popnllCc.
On the Koop Kapu IN Tchcrau, the
square in the heart OF the city where the
executions usually take Place, ahalf score
Of delinqueuts are often placed on the
raised platform surmounlcd by Il pole
painted 4 brilliant scarlet hue, aud in full
sight OF the mbble they have their Threats
cut, their hearts torn out, their ears and
noses slit, their tongues pulled out their
eyes scared, or boiling pitch poured over
their naked bOdics-tO cverybody's great
delight except that OF the parties directly
concerned. Along the highways one
meets, stuck in the ground. short, hollow
pillars with the Upper opening closed with
gypsum Each OF these contains "A man,
q condemned criminal walled up alive.
Faint grOans may often be heard by pas
sersby, Tor this mode Of death il slow and
very painful, but nobody thinks il worth
his while 10 liberate the poor wretch or
to terminate his sufferings by a merciml
DIOW' NiSiltlI lnCN say, NuCu Is
fate!' Very much depends ut executions
upon the hangman. A bride 10 him or
the guarantee that a qualification will be
paid him by the friends of the condemned
man after his death always insure a more
or less speedy death and decrease Of the
tortures otherwise inflicted.
But o 10 the poor delinquent who
either has no more means left to buy the
good Offices OF the executioner or else
chooses to make over his last few tOmans
to his family-he will surely rne il in his
last hour aud made 10 suffer twice as
acutely rs would otherwise be the case.
There were. for instance. four criminals
hanged mp 10y their feet and nailed 10 the
boards outside the gates Of Teheran less
than n year ago who could he seen there
slowly dying for thirty siN hours. \ well
spent bribe to the cXecutioner would have
shortened their troubles. and il remained
finally for M Of the diplomatic corps Ia
bestow a few krnus 10 have these uulucky
J malelactors pnt cut Of their misery. The
average Persian will look entirely un-
moved on a spectacle Of human suffering.
There is no chord in his nature TO respond
to an appeal for mercy. Money alone
will induce him 10 take compassion Oh
another mans pain-Wolf "On Schicr-
brand in New York Graphic.